Category: Society news

  • Game Theory Software

    (posted April 9, 2014) Try out the Game Theory Explorer software for the interactive creation and equilibrium analysis of (currently two-player) games in extensive and strategic form. See also our resources on algorithms for game theory; further suggestions welcome!

  • GAMES 2016 in Maastricht, The Netherlands, 24-28 July 2016

    (mailed to GTS members by Roger Myerson, President of the Game Theory Society on Monday, 19 August 2013) Dear members of the Game Theory Society, the Fifth World Congress of the Game Theory Society is scheduled for Sunday-Thursday 24-28 July 2016, to be held in Maastricht, The Netherlands. Please mark these dates in your calendar! Scholars can…

  • New Book

    Check out our book listing (and send suggestions) – new book: Game Theory Michael Maschler, Eilon Solan, and Shmuel Zamir 2013 Cambridge University Press

  • Congratulations

    Congratulations to Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley for receiving The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2012 "for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design".

  • Election of GTS Officers 2012

    (mailed to GTS members by Eric Maskin on 6 July 2012) Dear Members of the Game Theory Society, According to the bylaws of our Society, elections for the Officers of the Society have to be held every two years. The Officers (the President, the Past President, the Executive Vice-President, the Vice-President for Communications, and the…

  • ACM Gödel Prize for Seminal Papers in Algorithmic Game Theory

    (posted June 3, 2012) The ACM's (Association for Computing Machinery) Special Interest Group on Computation Theory (SIGACT) together with the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) will recognize three groups of researchers for their contributions to understanding how selfish behavior by users and service providers impacts the behavior of the Internet and other complex…

  • Israeli Chapter of the Game Theory Society

    (posted April 23, 2012) With the Founding Committee of Yisrael Aumann, Sergiu Hart, and Ehud Lehrer, the Game Theory Society has an Israeli Chapter since April 2012. David Schmeidler is the first President of the Chapter. It is open to all GTS members interested in its activities. For enquiries please contact the Executive Officer of…

  • Online Game Theory Class

    (mailed to GTS members by Federico Valenciano on 24 February 2012) Matthew Jackson and Yoav Shoham are launching an online game theory class that is free and open to the public. It is a six week introductory class covering some basics of game theory, and will begin shortly. It already has eighty thousand students, but…

  • Council Elections 2011

    (mailed to GTS members by Federico Valenciano, Secretary-Treasurer of the Game Theory Society on Tuesday, 29 November 2011) Dear member of the Game Theory Society, The elections for the replacement of 12 members of the GTS Council have taken place, and the following candidates have been elected: Dilip Abreu Elchanan Ben-Porath Francis Bloch Jean-Jacques Herings…

  • 4th Congress GAMES 2012 of the Game Theory Society in Istanbul

    (mailed to GTS members by Eric Maskin and Larry Samuelson on Thursday, 6 October 2011) Dear member of the Game Theory Society, the Fourth Congress of the Game Theory Society will take place Sunday July 22 – Thursday July 26, 2012, in Istanbul, Turkey. The webpage for submissions to the congress of the Game Theory…